The Holiday Analysis

The Holiday directed by Nancy Meyers is a heartwarming romance, comedy focused around two women Iris and Amanda, who are heartbroken from previous men in their life. Iris is a writer who lives in a cosy small little cottage in England, in comparison with Amanda, who lives in a Hollywood mansion and works as a movie editor. While each of the women are very different they each share the same mutual bad luck with men they date. I would recommend this film because it provides a sweet and heartwarming theme of different kinds of love such as love for just friends or love for something more such as boyfriends. I would especially recommend this film for women as it describes the struggles of finding love but how it can become an important part of …show more content…
She is a writer, and a lovesick fool, who has been in love with Jasper Bloom for 3 years, a man who is not available. It irritates me that she has not done anything about it, she just stands there helplessly crippled by the fact that she is in love with a man that will not love her. Then again, I also feel sorrow for her, Jasper is holding her back without even realising it and his constant presence does not allow her to move on. 'You're supposed to be the leading lady of your own life, for God's sake!” Iris relates her constant lack of opinion on the issue to movies, she considers herself not the leading lady of her own life but rather the bystander. Personally I think that the character Jasper Bloom plays an extremely selfish man, who does not consider other's lives as important as his own. I especially don't like the way he bounces from women to women and just makes excuses that he's confused, it's ridiculous in my opinion. Although I, myself haven't had this experience as I'm still young and I have a lot to learn about love, but I stand by the fact that he is selfish and continues to think about himself rather than those that are around him. An example of this is when Jasper Bloom visits Iris in Hollywood and makes promises to run away with her, even while he continues to be engaged to Sarah one of Iris' colleagues at work. I feel as if the author's' intention was to persuade the audience that men such …show more content…
I found that the author described Iris as a total expert on love, but has not experienced the full power, as most of her love is considered quite 'one-sided.' I feel as if the author's intention of making Iris's character an expert I think contributed to the viewers being able to relate to specifically her character which I thought helped me understand the film and the depth of the plotline that can be relatable today in life and how love has a constant, “sheer power to alter and define our